Oooopps, I sure didn't do what I thought I had done. Very sorry. The quote wasn't at all brief and to the point. Very sorry. Bottom line ... The latex book doesn't seem to be linked on your home page. Here's what I get at http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~sshaik/docs.html LaTeX For Beginners This is a book that teaches the reader about the LaTeX type-setting system. Since LaTeX is a type-setting system, this allows the author to spend more time concentrating on the content of the document rather than its formatting - that is taken care of by LaTeX. LaTeX is extremely useful for writing technical and mathematical documents, and is widely used, especially in academia. This book is almost complete, and will be uploaded in the near future - watch this space!